A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. By George Anson, ... Compiled from papers and other materials of ... George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, ... Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates.
Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson(1697 - 1762)
Category
Books
Date
1748
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3070217
Summary
Bibliographic description
[34], 417, [3] p. : plates : ill., maps ; 4to. Large paper copy. Provenance: nineteenth-cenury bookseller's blurb pasted in - this copy apparently purchased for £2 2 s. "Four scarce portraits of Lord Anson inserted in this copy." Provenance: Armorial bookplate of George W. Galloway, nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854); and also used by subsequent earls]. Binding: eighteenth-century gold tooled red morocco. Rebacked, nineteenth-century.
Makers and roles
Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson(1697 - 1762)